KAPIL SIBAL

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down the validity of the controversial Section 66A of the IT Act. The section had given police powers to arrest anyone for sending offensive messages from mobiles and computers with up to 3 years in jail. former Union minister Kapil Sibal said, "Section 66A...

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said in Delhi High Court that the summons issued against her, Rahul Gandhi and five others in the National Herald case were "illegal", claiming no one was cheated in the acquisition process.
A bench of Justice Sunil Gaur was told by senior advocate...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Monday that exiled BCCI president N Srinivasan should have refrained from functioning as the cricket board chief after the apex court had declared that he was in a conflict of interest situation.
Referring to its January 2 verdict holding that Srinivasan, being head of...

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New Delhi: Congress leadership is learnt to be upset with former Union minister Kapil Sibal for appearing as a lawyer for the West Bengal government in the multi-crore Saradha scam case in the Supreme Court.
According to sources, the party leadership has asked Sibal to take note of the angry sentiments...

New Delhi: Government is considering a review of technical specifications of Aakash 4 tablet, the previous UPA government's trumpeted low-cost computing device project.
The first and second versions of the Aakash were shipped by vendor Datawind for Rs 2,276 and Rs 2,263 per unit.
The Department of Electronics and IT (DEITY), which...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the controversial amendment in the BCCI rules which enables office bearers to own teams in the IPL and Champions League amidst raging debate over conflict of interest issue.
The apex court termed the issue of conflict of interest "relevant" and decided...

New Delhi: In what could be bad news for CBSE students, the Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry is considering a proposal to bring back class 10th board exams in schools. However, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) said that they have not been consulted by the government yet.
The...

New Delhi: Several senior Congress leaders including AK Antony, P Chidambaram, Sushilkumar Shinde and Kamal Nath were conspicuous by their absence at the International Conference on Jawaharlal Nehru organised on Monday.
A number of party Chief Ministers including from Karnataka and Kerala were also...

Kochi: Kerala Government is 'duty bound' to control use of intoxicants and there is no legal bar for it to promulgate a policy restricting sale of Indian Made Foreign liquor in the state, Senior advocate Kapil Sibal said before the High Court on Tuesday.
The entire policy is to be viewed...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked CBI to file a report giving details of probe and its status in a preliminary enquiry alleging Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, during his earlier tenure as CM and Union Minister, indulged in graft, money laundering and forgery.
"The CBI is...

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday opposed in the Delhi High Court the private criminal complaint against her and the summons issued by a trial court in the National Herald case saying a political party is within its right to "writeoff" or "assign" a loan.
"The issuance of...

New Delhi:The Congress on Wednesday will press for quashing of the order or at least an exemption from personal appearance for Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case. If they don't get relief, then Sonia and Rahul would have to appear in...

New Delhi: Eviction notices have been served to 16 former ministers of the UPA government who have been staying unauthorised in government bungalows for over a month now. Notices have been sent to Kapil Sibal and Farooq Abdullah.
Ajit Singh and Sachin Pilot have also been served eviction notices. Urban Development...

Mathematician Anand Kumar on Monday urged the union government to give six chances in joint entrance examination for IITs as it is in the case of civil services examination.
This would provide a levelplaying field for candidates appearing for the IIT entrance examinations, he said in a letter to Union HRD...

A Delhi Court on Saturday issued a bailable warrant against Shazia Ilmi, who quit Aam Aadmi Party during the day, for her nonappearance in a defamation case filed by outgoing Telecom minister Kapil Sibal's son Amit.
The court had last month warned of coercive measures against AAP national convener and former...

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday issued bailable warrant against Aam Aadmi Party leader Shazia Ilmi for nonappearance in a defamation case filed by outgoing Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal's son Amit.
The court had last month warned of coercive measures against Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and...

New Delhi: Elaborate arrangements have been made and security tightened at the seven centres, housing over 20,000 EVMs, to ensure peaceful counting of votes in the national capital.
A twolayered security cover has been put in place at the counting centres across the city.
While a platoon of paramilitary force forms the...

Faculties of top Indian institutes IIT, IIM and IISc have written to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal to expeditiously operationalise funds, proposed to be around Rs 17,500 crore, for developing domestic capabilities and reduce dependence on imports in the sector.
"We have written to the Telecom Minister and DoT for release of...

New Delhi: After the conclusion of what he termed was a "difficult campaign" for the party, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said they were "outfunded" by BJP in the wake of the publicity blitzkrieg by Narendra Modi for the Lok Sabha polls. While Modi's campaign spending had reached an...

New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday said that the Government dropped its move to name a judge to head the commission set up to probe 'snoopgate', as it did not want to give an impression of political vendetta to go around as suggested by the allies.
"I talked to the Home Minister...

New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday charged Narendra Modi with destroying media freedom in Gujarat and questioned his promise of ridding politics of criminals when he "embraces" accused like Amit Shah and Babubhai Bukharia.
Taking a dig at the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate over his extending greetings to journalists on World...

Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Monday slammed the Congress for holding Narendra Modi responsible for the violence in Assam, saying those levelling such charges are the ones who have "divided" the country and should practice meditation at Ramdev's ashram as they have "lost their mental balance".
BJP's oldest ally also targeted Congress...

Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal hit out at the BJP for questioning government's decision to appoint a judge to investigate Narendra Modi snooping case. Sibal said, "We are in the government till May 16 and we have every right to take decisions. Arun Jaitely and the BJP should know the...

Hitting out at Narendra Modi, Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday claimed that the Gujarat chief minister will never become Prime Minister despite all efforts as people have come to know his real face.
"My experience says Modi will never become the PM. Do they want a person who got people...

New Delhi: The government is going ahead with a probe into the Gujarat snoopgate scandal. It will appoint a judge to head the probe panel by May 16 before the new government is formed.
"The judge heading the commission will be appointed before May 16. Why is Modi afraid of...

Reacting on Narendra Modi's comment that he will take a relook at FDI if he becomes the Prime Minister, Union Minister Kapil Sibal said, "Who is Modi to relook at FDI. He has already started thinking that he is the PM."
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